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The Valenti Show

What Does Ben Johnson Returning Say About Lions' Culture?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rico and Jim continue to break down the return of Ben Johnson and present multiple theories as to why they believe he is staying in Detroit.

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0:00.0

97-1, Ben Johnson is staying.

0:03.6

As the Lions-O-C, he told the commanders and the Seahawks,

0:06.7

I got this thing called the Super Bowl I want to chase.

0:11.2

Probably the best news destroyed his had in the last 48 hours.

0:15.0

It does not undo a collapse in the NFC title game, but it does soften the blow.

0:20.0

Softens the blow because you know why? Because you could put the title game behind you and

0:25.8

you could focus on what's in front of you. You could look at the future and say you know

0:29.6

what it's bright and it got even brighter about an hour and 20 minutes ago.

0:35.0

So you don't, yeah, what happened hurts, but I got something to look forward to now.

0:42.0

Because before it was Campbell coming in saying,

0:45.0

guys, I don't even know if we're all gonna be back.

0:47.9

And he was being real.

0:50.6

And I respect that from Dan Campbell of saying it's not a

0:53.5

foregone conclusion you're going to be back here in this spot. I think we can I

0:57.4

would love to promise you we will but I've been in the NFL long enough to

1:01.2

know it doesn't always happen that way.

1:03.6

My God, look at Buffalo, how many times do they keep knocking on the door,

1:07.2

but they just don't get in?

1:09.8

But with this news and seeing what you did learn from your mistakes and next year you

1:17.8

capitalize on that try to get that number one overall seed, make sure all the games are here.

1:24.0

So you don't have to worry about not winning a role game in the playoffs.

1:27.0

Dan Campbell.

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